Russia launched another massive strike last night against Kyiv and other areas in central, eastern, western and southern Ukraine using 40 cruise missiles and 35 drones, most of which were intercepted by Ukrainian air defences, it reported. this Monday the Ukrainian Air Force. "Between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m., the Russian occupiers attacked military targets and strategic infrastructure in Ukraine," the army report reported.
Of the total number of rockets and drones, Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 37 cruise missiles and 29 drones, all of them Iranian-made Shahed kamikazes, before they reached their target.
After the overnight bombings, air sirens sounded again in the Ukrainian capital in the morning, followed by a series of explosions around 11 a.m. local time. It was the result of the city's air defenses, which shot down all the missiles from this second attack on Monday.
In what is the 15th Russian air assault on Kyiv in May and the second consecutive nighttime attack of similar intensity, authorities said no casualties were reported in the capital, although military installations in the west were hit and the remains of downed missiles. caused a lot of damage. In addition, the attack again inflicted fear on Kievites after the largest barrage of drones launched on the city the night before, in which one person was killed and several injured. "With these constant attacks, the enemy intends to keep the civilian population in deep psychological tension," Serhi Popko, head of the city's military administration, told the Telegram messaging channel.
The missiles were launched from "nine Tu-95ms strategic aircraft from the Caspian Sea area." Ukrainian air defenses were activated last night to repel them in the center, east, south and west of the country, according to the Air Force report.
The respective regional Military Administrations reported interceptions in the provinces of Mykolaiv and Odessa, in the south, Lviv (west) and Kyiv (north). The capital was, one more night, the main objective of the Russian forces, and the Ukrainian air defenses shot down more than 40 drones and missiles in that area.
One of the Russian shells hit military installations in the western Khmelnitsky region, where five planes were put out of action, the regional governor said. Ukrainian officials often do not acknowledge when military targets have been attacked.
"For the moment, work continues to contain the fires at the fuel, lubricant and ammunition storage facilities," the regional governor's office wrote on the Telegram messaging application. The office also said work was underway to restore a track. He did not elaborate on what kind of facility was hit, but a large military airfield was located in the region before the war.
